wind harp

Outside the living room windows he built two wind harps, 12-foot-tall clusters of 32 strings.

He was pleased when he heard the strains of the wind harp.

Wind Harp is a good example of Demetrios' monumental work.

Her head was aching from worry over Howard; she wondered if she could have put the wind harp in the trunk or in another suitcase.

It got its name from the musical sounds the bridge railings generate during strong south-westerly winds causing the bridge to act as a wind harp.

The wind harp is similar to the Aeolian Harp, its strings vibrating due to wind passing through the instrument.

The wind harp drone, on the other hand, can be likened to the ison (or drone voice) found in Byzantine chant.

Metal framed instruments with no soundboard produce a music very different to that produced by wind harps with wooden sound boxes and sound boards.

Planet of the Wind Harps (1983, Planet der Windharfen)

Cilla McQueen, A Wind Harp (compact disc)

The work is scored for three choirs (women's choir, men's choir, and mixed choir), prepared piano, divisi strings, and wind harp.

An Aeolian harp (æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument that is played by the wind.

United released their double LP entitled The Wind Harp - Song From The Hill.

The song of the forest, added to the wind chimes, the wind bells, and wind harps in the gardens, created a music unlike anything he had ever heard.

The two notes (D and A) performed on the wind harp are to be played on two separate CD or DAT recordings.

And deeper, more sadly: Peter ... The wind harped through the latticework skirt of the porch, blew hellish baritone in the downspouts, rattled the limbs of the trees.

The wind harp was such a hit that gallery owners who wouldn't look at Doug's slides before began begging him to come see them in New York, "And what do you do, dear?"

According to the score preface, the wind harp functions as a drone throughout the piece, fulfilling "a function comparable to that of the ison in Byzantine church music, a repeated note which does not change pitch."

Chordophones like the aeolian harp (wind harp) and the autoharp (with the piano and harpsichord) are not harps, but zithers, because their strings are not perpendicular to their soundboard.

Each a study in itself, with titles like 'No two feathers', 'Butterflyman', and 'Angel and the Dreamer', they have been flown as an aerial ballet to classical music, wind harps and synthesisers.

He is also a pioneer of ambient jazz composition, most notably on his 1976 album Dis a collaboration with guitarist Ralph Towner that featured the distinctive sound of a wind harp on several tracks.

Her most recent works are a CD of McQueen reading her poems ("A Wind Harp", from Otago University Press) and a 2010 volume of new poems and drawings "The Radio Room" (Otago University Press).